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Series Producer Simon Shaw explains the role the rules played in the experiment.
 With all the comforts of the modern world just outside their door,
did the Bowlers ever break the rules?
 There were actually very few infractions, but Joyce, the mother,
went out and bought shampoo on one occasion, and Kathryn, the teenage
daughter, used a telephone box to call her friends.
Could the Bowlers have done anything that would disqualify them from
the experiment?
There were no penalties. The purpose was to understand how people
lived at a completely different time in history, not to put on a game
show. What made the project interesting was when they did break the
rules, when they did say, "I can't bear this anymore," when Joe, the
young boy, said "I can't eat this food."
Infractions were all part of the experiment?
Yes, and you have to understand these were challenging conditions.
Kathryn, for example, made her telephone call after weeks of living a
completely up-ended lifestyle. Everything she ate, all the clothes she
wore, everything was completely changed. She was just expressing how she
felt being straight-jacketed into the much more restrictive culture of
the past.
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